The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-05
-Watch for Tulip. Itls coming.

butter anu eggs are coming uOWn III
price,
The 1st of April, moving day, falls OH
Friday.
Farmers, keep your eyes "peeled' for
sharpers.
Subscribe for the ADVOCATE, St.OC
per year.
The school board and town council
meet Monday night.
we arc Marching towards April show
ers and May flowers.
1t will soon be time for the ''grand
rush. for garden seeds.
This promises to be a big fruit year, ,ao-
oording to the prophets.
"A woman's rights society has been Or
ganized in East Stroudsburg.
"A ghost with black eyes and red hair is
Monroe county's latest scare,
The law granting bounties for owl and
hawk scalps has been repealed,
"A large number of "faith" cures are
reported from adjoining counties.
Mercantile Appraiser, Frank p. Boyle,
is making the rounds of the county.
Counterfeit ten cent pieces are in cir.
oulation. They are good imitation.
"A band of Turks, wii,l several tame
bears, are camping in Monroe county.
George Seiger, popular Lehigh coun-
tY miller, has failed, Assets, $4,000.
Three hundred thousand barrels of ce-
mcnt were shipped from Coplay last year.
The shipments of slate from Slatington
last year approximated in value $500, 1000.
Representative Daniel Bachman will
accept Acknowledgements for publiG' does"
The Lansford Record urges the citizens
of that town to organize a Board of Trade,
The, bethlehem Knitting Mill gives
employment to one hundred and siXty-ive
hands.
"A reorganization of the Slatington
Blue Stocking base ball club has been eff
feoied.
The Knights of Labor are establishing
many cooperative industries throughout
the State.
There are one hundred and one appli-
cants for hotel and restaurant licenses in
Lehigh county.
Two hundred and fifty men and boys
are at present employed an the new Lans-
ford coal breaker
The Lehigh Car Manufacturing Com
pany have closed their shops at Stemton
for want of work.
Charles Corson, of Pottsville, was ac-
cidentally shot in the head while carelessly
handling a revolver.
There are eight camps of the r. o. S.
of a. in this county, with a membership of
six hundred aud ninety four.
The coal mines in the Wyoming Valley
are running full time. Twenty-Five thous-
and men and boys are employed.
Counterfeit silver dollars of the date
1851 are in circulation. They are hard to
from the "real stnif'
Instead Of saying mashed, you must
say "iouEce," in referring to a fellow who
is severely snitten on new face.
The Philadelphia conference of the NJ.
L. church VIII commence its annual session
in Philadelphia On March 18th.
-"Belshazaar's Feast" grand dramat-
ic cantata in ten acts, will be rendered in
Armory Hall, Slatingten, on the 25th inst.
Ask the postmaster for Tulip.
Christian Weser, aged sixty-iive years,
throughout the Lehigh Valley,
died at his home in Salisbury, Lchigh cnun-
ty, Wednesday.
John Hagen will address the members
of the Y. NJ. G. A. on the 'Problem of
Human Misery: its Cause aud Cure" Sun.
day afternoon. All are welcome.
--Mihlin county people are greatly oxcit-
ed by rHmor that gold and silver exists in
great quantities in the mountains there.
The price of land is rapidly going up.
William Paisley has been arrested on
suspicion of having murdered Mrs. Peter
KrainOek, at Hopeville, several weeks ago.
He has beep incarcerated in the Luzerne
county Jail.
According to late resort Of the Lee
high Goa! and Navigation Company. the
profit on the coal mined and shipped by
that corporation amounted to thirteen cents
per ton.
Work at the slate quarries in the Ban
gor slate regioR is booming. Tine strike at
one of the quarries stiii continues -one
hundred and eighty men are out. The out
look for the present year is reported as
good.
Charles Weiss, aged about eighteen
years. residing on Lcligh street, died of
typhoid fever Friday and was buried Mon
day. Lebigh Council, j. @. U. A. NJ, of
town, and a delegation of Mt Pisgah Coun-
ell, Mauch Chunk, attended the funeral
Engine No 03, collided with the rear
end of the White Haven freight train at
Cherry Ford, Saturday afternoon. No one
was injured, but the engine was thrown
from the track and several ears were badly
wrecked, Trains were delayed but few
hours.
The receivers OF the Reading Railroad
Company have rendered to the conductors
intercst-bearing notes in the sum of 81, 900
in settlement of the back pay due them
since 1888, the time the receivers took
charge. The pay of the conductors will
hereafter be SO. % day.
--lIazleton people are determined tc
have a hospital in which to take care OF
their sick and injured; if the Legislature
will not giant an appropriation for the
erection of the same, benevolent citizens Of
that town and county will contribute the
necessary amount required.
-Luzerne counly's bill for the care o.
the 80 prisoners in the Eastern penitentiary
from that county for 1856 amounts tC
S270O Is. There is a credit of Sl993. AZ
however, fer the labor of c0nvicts, man,
of whom earned more than it cost to keel
them. The net expense to the county wa
S79G.76.